Director: Stefano Mula; Program Coordinator: Renée Brown
In an effort to strengthen interdepartmental and interdisciplinary teaching projects in literature and culture and in order to establish a strong common framework for literature students at Middlebury College, the literature division created Intro. to World Literature (LITP 0101), the first of a series of several courses that interconnect the study of literature across campus. Three to four sections of this course are offered every spring, and the staff for each version of LITP 0101 is drawn from at least three different departments, generally but not necessarily from the Department of English and American Literatures, the Program of American Studies, and the various language departments. The course may be counted toward requirements for the major in English and American literatures, literary studies, and some of the language departments. It is open to non majors as well.
In addition to the course descriptions indicated below, students with an interest in the general literature offerings available at the college are urged to consult the subsection titled Literature and Culture in Translation as well as the Literary studies and the English and American Literatures listings.
LITP 0101 Introduction to World Literature (CW 15) (Spring)
This course is an introduction to the critical analysis of imaginative literature of the world, the dissemination of themes and myths, and the role of translation as the medium for reaching different cultures. Through the careful reading of selected classic texts from a range of Western and non-Western cultures, students will deepen their understanding and appreciation of the particular texts under consideration, while developing a critical vocabulary with which to discuss and write about these texts, both as unique artistic achievements of individual and empathetic imagination and as works affected by, but also transcending their historical periods. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT CMP (Weihe Xu, Michael Katz, Stefano Mula)
LITP/ENAM 0110 Continental Fiction (Not offered in 2008-09)
See Department of English and American Literatures for course description. (Formerly LITP/ENGL 0110) LIT EUR
LITP/INTL 0201 Contemporary Caribbean Studies (Spring)
See Program of International Studies for course description. LIT AAL (K. Ernst)
LITP/ITAL 0299 Literary Feasts: Representations of Food in Modern Narrative (Spring)
See Department of Italian for course description. LIT EUR
(S. Carletti)
LITP/ENAM 0305 Love Stories: Desire and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Spring)
See Department of English and American Literatures for course description. (Formerly LITP/ENGL 0305) LIT EUR (M. Wells)
LITP/ENAM 0325 Chinese Poetry in the Far West (Fall)
See Department of English and American Literatures for course description. For students with no knowledge of Chinese.
LIT CMP (T. Billings)
LITP/GRMN 0333 Dealing with the Devil: The "Faust" Tradition (in English) (Spring)
See Department of German for course description. LIT EUR (R. Graf)
LITP/WAGS 0460 Sexing the Canon (Spring)
Human sexuality has been the topic of scientific and artistic explorations for centuries. Regulatory norms of individual cultures enable or deny the expression of specific forms of sexuality in life and literature. As Foucault states: "What is at issue, briefly, is the over-all 'discursive fact,' the way in which sex is 'put into discourse.' In this course we will explore and compare the ways theories of sexuality from different times and places inform and determine our readings of literature. Theoretical texts form the basis for discussions of the works of authors such as Plato, Boccaccio, Choderlos de Laclos, Stifter, Henry James, Woolf, Genet, James Baldwin, Wittig, Thomas Mann, and Santos-Febres. LIT CMP EUR (R. Graf)
Literature and Culture in Translation
In order to provide a convenient way of exploring the various offerings of Literature and Culture in Translation offered at the college, below are the courses offered in English by the various language departments:
CHINESE
CHNS 0220 Chinese Literature (in translation) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Chinese for course description. LIT AAL
CHNS/FMMC 0250 Chinese Cinema (CW 10) (Fall)
See Department of Chinese for course description.. ART AAL (T. Moran)
CHNS/LITS 0360 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Chinese for course description.
CLASSICS
CLAS 0140 Augustus and the World of Rome (Spring)
See Department of Classics for course description. 2 hrs. lect., 1 hr. disc. LIT HIS EUR (R. Ganiban)
CLAS 0150 Arms and the Man: Greek and Roman Epic Poetry (Fall)
See Department of Classics for course department. 3 hrs. lect., 1 hr. disc. LIT PHL EUR (M. Witkin)
CLAS 0151 Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature (CW 10) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Classics for course description. 3 hrs. lect., 1 hr. disc. LIT PHL EUR
CLAS 0152 Greek Tragedy (CW 10) (Spring)
See Department of Classics for course description. 3 hrs. lect., 1 hr. disc. LIT PHL EUR (M. Witkin)
CLAS/PHIL 0175 Greek Philosophy: The Problem of Socrates (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Classics for course description. 3 hrs. lect., 1 hr disc. LIT PHL EUR
CLAS 0420 Seminar in Classical Literature (Spring)
See Department of Classics for course description.
GERMAN
GRMN/WAGS 0226 To Veil or not to Veil: Germany and Islam (in English) (Fall)
See Department of German for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT SOC CMP (K. Murti)
GRMN/WAGS 0228 Women's Fictions in German-Speaking Countries (in English) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of German for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT SOC EUR
GRMN/FMMC 0314 German Cinema (in English and in German) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of German for course description. ART EUR
GRMN 0325 Representing the Unthinkable: The Holocaust in Art and Literature (in English and in German) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of German for course description. LIT EUR
GRMN/LITP 0333 Dealing with the Devil: The "Faust" Tradition (in English) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of German for course description. LIT EUR
GRMN/MUSC 0417 "Musically Speaking": Close Encounters of Music and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (in English and in German) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of German for course description.
HEBREW
HEBM 0201 Modern Hebrew Culture in Translation (Spring)
See Hebrew for course description. LIT (N. Devir)
ITALIAN
ITAL 0296 Literature of the Italian Renaissance (in English) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Italian for course description. LIT EUR
ITAL/LITP 0299 Literary Feasts: Representations of Food in Modern Narrative (in English) (Spring)
See Department of Italian for course description. LIT EUR (S. Carletti)
JAPANESE
JAPN/SOAN 0110 Current Social Issues in Japan (Spring)
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hr. lect./disc. SOC AAL (L. White)
JAPN 0116 Traditional Japanese Literature in Translation (Not offered 2008 -09 )
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT AAL
JAPN/FMMC 0175 Anime: Japanese Animation (Spring)
See Department of Japanese for course description. ART AAL (C. Cavanaugh)
JAPN 0180 Representing the Geisha (Not offered 2008 -09 )
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hrs. lect/disc. LIT AAL
JAPN 0190 Tale of Genji (Not offered 2008 -09 )
See Department of Japanese for course description. LIT AAL
JAPN 0198 Japanese Poetry (CW 5) (Not offered 2008 -09 )
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT AAL
JAPN 0215 Modern Japanese Fiction (Fall)
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT AAL (S. Snyder)
JAPN 0216 Contemporary Japanese Fiction (CW 5) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT AAL
JAPN/FMMC 0237 Japanese Film (Not offered 2008 -09 )
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc, screen ART AAL
JAPN/WAGS 0245 Josei Undo: Women’s Activism in Contemporary Japan ( Not offered 2008-2008)
See Department of Japanese for course description. 3 hr. lect./disc. SOC AAL
JAPN/WAGS 0250 Gender in Japan (Fall)
See Department of Japanese for course description. LIT AAL (L. White)
RUSSIAN
RUSS 0122 The Russian Mind (in English) (CW 5) (Fall)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT HIS AAL (S. Davydov)
RUSS 0151 Russian Literature's Golden Age: 1830-1880 (in English) (Spring)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR (T. Beyer)
RUSS 0152 Russian Literature's "Bloody Age": Twentieth-Century Literature and Society (in English) (Fall)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR (T. Beyer)
RUSS/DANC 0241 Russian Ballet and the Creation of Modern Culture (in English) (Not Offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect./disc., screening ART HIS EUR
RUSS/FMMC 0245 Russian-Soviet Film: Illusion and Reality (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. ART EUR
RUSS 0351 Dostoevsky (in English) (Spring)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR (M. Katz)
RUSS 0352 Tolstoy (in English) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. LIT EUR
RUSS/THEA 0354 Chekhov (in English) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR
RUSS/ENAM 0359 The Art of Vladimir Nabokov (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT NOR
RUSS/THEA 0354 Chekhov (in English) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR
RUSS/ENAM 0359 The Art of Vladimir Nabokov (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description. 3 hrs. lect. LIT NOR